• Publication: 50 Great American Short StoriesPublication Record # 643211
• Editor: Milton Crane
• Date: 1980-08-00
• ISBN: 0-553-14528-2 [978-0-553-14528-1]
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Pub. Series: Bantam Literature
• Price:
  $2.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Pages: x+502
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • 1st ed, March 1965; Bantam Literature ed. April 1972; this printing (18th) August 1980.
  • Only speculative stories and ones by genre authors have been listed in the contents here.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 65-13863

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 2 • The Adventure of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1824) • short story by Washington Irving
• 6 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 18 • MS. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1833) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 34 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 61 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 171 • The Lost Phoebe • (1916) • short story by Theodore Dreiser
• 232 • Silent Snow, Secret Snow • (1932) • short story by Conrad Aiken
• 249 • By the Waters of Babylon • (1937) • short story by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
  (variant of The Place of the Gods)
• 281 • The Old People • (1940) • short story by William Faulkner
• 312 • The Hour of Letdown • (1951) • short story by E. B. White
• 316 • The Resting Place • (1954) • short story by Oliver La Farge
• 328 • The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It • non-genre • (1941) • short story by John Collier
• 415 • A Mother's Tale • (1952) • novelette by James Agee
• 479 • Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland • (1941) • short story by Carson McCullers